Authenticity examination of two iron age ostraca from the moussaieff collection

Israel Exploration Journal

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 21-34

  Goren, Yuval ^a   Bar Matthews, Miryam ^b   Ayalon, Avner ^b   Schilman, Bettina ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Geological Survey of   (Israel)

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